Description
Stranger Than Fiction: Images of Islam and Muslim in English Fiction
Author: Edited by A.R. Kidwai
Order No. 51053
ISBN: 817648203X
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: APH
Pub Year: 2000
Pages: 147
Language: English
Stranger than Fiction being the collection of articles has grown mainly out of the UGC Major Research Project “Image of Islam and Muslims in English Literature”. It seeks to identify and comment upon the representation of Islam/Muslims in select literary texts, ranging from Beckford’s Vathek, E.M. Forster’s A Passage to India, pulp fiction, post-Independence Indian Fiction in English, to Khushwant Singh’s and Gurcharan Oas’s works. While undertaking socio-political reading of the works under study it attempts at unraveling the main contours of the rich, though so far unacknowledged, repository of information on the subject.